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4.1.8. TerrAfrica
TerrAfrica is a partnership of African governments, NEPAD, regional and sub-regional
organizations, the UNCCD, multilateral and bilateral donors, civil society and research
organizations, to promote scaling up of SLM in SSA. It was initiated in 2005 to support
implementation of UNCCD, CAADP, and the Environment Action Plan of NEPAD. The
establishment of TerrAfrica was motivated by several lessons from past efforts to address land
degradation in Africa:
• There are too many overlapping and scattered programs with conflicting
objectives.
• Land degradation is too large for a single institution to address.
• Narrow approaches have had a limited and unsustained impact.
• Poor knowledge management has constrained scaling up of SLM.
TerrAfrica focuses on three activity lines: i) coalition building, ii) knowledge
management, and iii) investments in SLM. As mentioned earlier, TerrAfrica has mobilized $150
million investment from GEF, which is expected to leverage up to $1 billion in additional funds
from donors, governments and private sources.
TerrAfrica is working with many countries to develop Country Strategic Investment
Frameworks (CSIFs) for scaling up SLM. Progress is most advanced in four pilot countries:
Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana and Uganda. By the end of 2007, all of these countries had made
substantial progress to develop their CSIF; priority SLM investments had been identified and in
some countries mobilized; and analytical work completed to support decision making for
mainstreaming SLM in government programs and expenditures (Table 4.2). These countries
have all moved to Phase 2 of TerrAfrica implementation, with an increased focus on
implementing investment projects. For example, in Ethiopia, a large watershed development
project financed by the World Bank and GEF was approved and initiated in 2008, drawing upon
the Country Partnership Program for SLM developed via the TerrAfrica partnership. Eleven
other countries – Eritrea, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal,
Mauritania, Lesotho, Tanzania – were involved in Phase 1 of TerrAfrica implementation in 2007,
during which the focus was on planning, coalition building, and analytical activities (TerrAfrica
2007). Most of these countries made substantial progress in 2008 in developing their CSIFs and
building the basis for programming SLM investments in the future.
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